It’s easy to forget now, with everything over and done with and the July heat melting our brains, but Kyle Lowry really did lead the Raptors to the 2019 NBA title with a busted thumb.
Back in that momentous Game 7 vs. the Sixers — the night of The Shot — Lowry cranked his left thumb and gamely continued to play. Afterwards, he acknowledged that it happened, that it was bothering him — even nothing that “during the game, I can’t feel my thumb” — but that it wasn’t going to stop him from playing.